Feature Request: Add colorful (syntax-highlighted) output support to ppjson

[mosheDO]

Currently, ppjson prints formatted JSON output, but all text appears in a single color. It would be great if ppjson could optionally output colorful (syntax-highlighted) JSON to improve readability — especially for command-line users who inspect JSON responses frequently.

Add an option (e.g., --color or --pretty-color) that enables colorized output.
Example:
ppjson --color input.json
ppjson -c input.json

Example Preview (Concept)

{
  "user": "alice",
  "active": true,
  "score": 42,
  "tags": ["blue", "json", "cli"]
}

[jhhcs]

How would you feel about a separate unit that does syntax highlighting? You would then type:

emit something | do something | ppjson | hl

And the output should be colored.

[jhhcs]

I added a new unit for this. Looks like this with the default color scheme:

There's a few options to teak it, of course.

[mosheDO]

will this work for xml as well?

[jhhcs]

Sure. It uses pygments internally, that has support for pretty much everything you want.

[jhhcs]

This will be in refinery v0.9.9, which is currently being released. I will close this out, but we can always re-open the ticket or create a new one if you have more feature requests for hl.

[mosheDO]

can we do it like this?

its much more clearer

[jhhcs]

I like my default style, but you can select any style you want from the list that pygments has using the -s switch of hl. I also added the flags -d and -l for the Pygments default dark or light style. The default will always be a matter of taste and since this is my project, it'll be the one I like best ;D.

[mosheDO]

oh nice looks good will test later

[huettenhain]

So if you find a few styles you like particularly, we can add easy shortcuts to them. For example, the github light and dark one look pretty "normal" compared to what I cooked up...

[jhhcs]

In the latest release, I added shortcuts for github, solarized and gruvbox styling. You can use hlg, hls, and hlb respectively as shortcuts. This should give you a good range of styles. Cheers!